Australian government to crack down on nicotine e-cigarettes as rates of teen vaping skyrocket

Retailers should ‘assume that their products have nicotine in them’ even if it is not listed on the label, the NSW health department says. Composite: Getty

So many Australian children are now addicted to nicotine from vaping that the federal health minister, Mark Butler, will propose reforms aimed at curtailing the e-cigarette industry.

Many children do not know they are consuming the highly addictive chemical until it is too late, experts say.